Description
The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader view on multihazards in urban areas. Uniquely among other works in the field, particular importance is given to urban planning issues, in conservation of heritage and emergency management. Multicriteria decision making and broad participation of those affected by disasters are included. 1. Earthquake hazard impact and urban planning – an introduction Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Agostino Goretti Part I: Urban hazard, exposure and vulnerability 2. Active fault systems and their significance for urban planning in Bucharest, Romania Dumitru Ioane, Mihail Diaconescu, Florina Chitea, George Garbacea 3. Capacities of remote sensing for population estimation in urban areas Julia Kubanek, Eike-Marie Nolte, Hannes Taubenbck, Friedmann Wenzel, Martin Kappas 4. The Vulnerability of Fragile Landscape and Complex Hazards. Areas with Potential Risks and Specific Types of Hazards and Vulnerabilities of the Natural, Anthropic and Cultural Landscape in Braila County, Romania Cerasella Craciun Part II: Earthquake risk assessment 5. Scenarios for Local Seismic Effects of Tulcea (Romania) Crustal Earthquakes – Preliminary Approach of the Seismic Risk Characterization for Tulcea City Stefan Florin Balan, Dumitru Ioane, Carmen Cioflan, Ionelia Panea, Bogdan Apostol, Zina Malita, Florina Chitea, Mirela Adriana Anghelache 6. High-detail damage pattern in towns hit earthquakes of the past: an approach to evaluate the reliability of the historical sources Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi, Lucia Tilio, Nicola Masini, Beniamino Murgante, Maria Rosaria Potenza, Cinzia Zotta 7. Spatial multi-criteria risk assessment of earthquakes from Bucharest, Romania Iuliana Armas and Mircea Radulian 8. The urban system of Crotone, Italy, facing the earthquake impact Agostino Goretti, Sabino Vetta, Francesco Palmieri, Fabio Adamo, Massimo Berlingeri, Luigi Palmieri Part III: Risk management 9. Principles for the evaluation of risk governance and the measurement of performance Urbano Fra.Paleo 10. Continuity and discontinuity of urban form – the issue of risk Tiberiu Florescu 11. Timber frame historic structures and the local seismic culture – an argumentation Maria Bostenaru Dan 12. Design in time of crisis Sergiu Catalin Petrea Part IV Impact and Decision making tools 13. A proposal to improve the Disaster Management Cycle model: the importance of the community participation Alessia Cerqua and Silvia Rapicetta 14. Aspects of architecture and urbanism in the reconstruction of disaster: Comparison of l’Aquila (Italy), and Kolontar (Hungary) in the context of participative reconstruction Maria Bostenaru Dan 15. Earthquake hazard impact and urban planning – conclusion and recommendations for further work Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor,Alessia Cerqua, Cristina Olga Gociman, Agostino Goretti
